Hook and eye.



No. 826,134. PATBNTED JULY 17,-1906.

H. ATKINSON.

HOOK AND EYE. APPLIOATION FILED my 10, 1905.

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HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1906.

Application filed May 10,1905. Serial No. 259,823.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HELEN ATKINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a hook of ahook and eye which is made from a single length of wire and is composed, as a whole, of two eyes or loops and a neck and a bill relatively formed and arranged as to each other and to said loops, all substantially as hereinafter described.

The hook of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a hook of this invention and of an eye and two pieces of fabric united by them. Figs. 2 to 11 are all similarly-enlarged views. Fig. 2 is a plan view at the upper side, and Fig. 3 is a similar view at the under side or side of the hook which is next to the fabric when the hook is attached. Fig. 4 is a side view. Figs. 5 and 6 are views at opposite ends ofthe hook. Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are views showing, Fig. 7, a length of wire suitable to form the hook of the preceding Figs..2 to 6 and Figs. 8 to 11 the wire at various stages of its bendings to form the hook of Figs. 2 to 6.

In the drawings, a is the bill, b is the neck, and c c are the attaching eyes or loops, of a hook of this invention and severally continuous with each other and formed with a single length of wire of suitable size. The loops 0 c are in the same plane and alongside of and in close relation or proximity to each other, and each loop at a corresponding part is continued in a similar quarter-bend d d respec tively, and each of these bends d d is continued in a similar upward or rising semicircular bend b 6 respectively, and these bends b b constitute the neck I) of the hook. The bill a consists of two similarly-lengthwisecurving bends a a in continuation of the bill a and semicircular bends 6 b respectively, and these bends a a lie alongside of each other and end beyond the loops 0 c in a common semicircularbend a. Eac'hlengthwisecurving bend a a is above the upper side of the loops and each crosses over the loops substantially in line with the inner side 0 or 0 as the case may be, thereof, and intermediate of the length of said bends each bend is in close proximity to or in actual contact with a portion at least of such side of the loops, Figs. 4 and 11, and thus the bends and the loops will cooperate to guard or protect and so to retain, an eye engaged with the hook against accidental escape from the hook, while permitting it to be readily entered into, or engaged with, or drawn out of, or disengaged from the hook, as may be desired.

The hook described is formed from a single length of wire, Fig. 7, and one mode of making it is, first, Fig. 8, to form the eyes or loops 0 0 one at each end of the wire length, and then to give the wire at each loop the similar quarter-bend (Z 622, then to bend or double the wire midway of its length, Fig. 9, and then to give this doubled wire the semicircular bends b b and to dispose it lengthwise over and above the inner sides of the loops, and finally to curve the wire lengthwise; Figs. 10 and 11.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hook of a hook and eye formed from a single length of wire, and consisting, as ,a whole, of two eyes or loops which are in the same plane and alongside of each other, a neck having a semicircular bend and joined to the loops by a quartenbend, and a bill which is in continuation of the neck and is curved from end to end and lies along and above the inner sides of the loops and at an intermediate portion is disposed relative to said sides of the loops to cooperate therewith to guard and retain an eye engaged with the hook against accidental escape therefrom, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HELEN ATKINSON. Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, L. W. Howns. 

